International society for complexity, information and design

We won't be able to say that ID people don't publish
in scientific journals anymore. It seems that they
founded their own journal, as well as a new society,
the "International society for complexity, information
and design."

You can check out their website here:

http://www.iscid.org/

I wonder if some of the "society fellows" really know
what they got into.

The journal can be found in this website:

http://www.iscid.org/pcid.php

As you might expect, there isn't much in terms of hard
evidence in those papers. I particularly suggest you
to take a look at a paper by Fernando Castro-Chavez on
"Some Implications for the Study of Intelligent Design
Derived from Molecular and Microarray Analysis."
Instead of a real scientific paper, it is a series of
"bullet-point" topics that includes examples of
flawless logic such as the following:

"The discovery of genes expressed only in particular
organisms or species ("species specific genes") can be
emphasized as a product of intelligent design, as
these are not present in any other organism,
discarding a continuous evolutionary way of
transmission of genetic material, and enforcing the
discontinuous, nonlinear origin of the genomic
organization of living beings."

and

"A discontinuous presence of genes specific for
humans, not present in any other living organism,
disproves the continuous and linear order of events
conceived by
the minds of the promoters of "evolution" and its
followers, a fact that is also reflected by the birth
of new stars, which disproves a linear derivation of
mass if only originated at the moment of the "big
bang," etc."

The last point is quite a feat. It is probably the
single sentence with the most non-sequiturs and
obvious mistakes I've ever seen. I honestly didn't
think "ID science" could be that bad. Richard
Feynman's "cargo-cult science" illustration seems very
appropriate in this case.

Marcio Pie

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Received on Fri Jul 22 09:15:05 2005